Tuto with Catrina THU 20th - drafty draft portfolo

CB: simple, clear, stay abstract about main project, if you dont know what you are doing yet. 

sweet :) 15 pages , win

as you said Peter, intensity always wins over extensity.

Tuto with Catrina THU 20th - powerpoint

5 min powerpoint presentation DRAFT

CB: correct typos, :)

fill in a page between pavement and Pliny's Playground. 
add the Pliny's Playground!

contact with Texas A&M

we have contact!

WHEN TO STOP DESIGNING

essay: 

The role of development practitioner in areas of rapid change and scarce resources. 
(for Changing Places)

FRADA
where high fashion
meets low finance

headlines: 




WEBEXPO talk - Adam Gebrian: 
"but Mr. Delanoe said no, it is very simple, it just needs two road closure signs, one at this end and the second at the other end of the road."  

TED talk – Cameron Sinclair: Open architecture network

"Doctors don’t have to bring their own building, and when they leave, the people cut down and eat the kenaf.”

TED talk – Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture

"Fashion designers started to innovate. (For example an introduction of a piece of titanium support to a high heal shape, which if made of cheap metal, breaks) to make their work harder to copy."

Viability versus aid

"I wont give them any money,.."

Margaret, Econominst, about microfinance

tuto with Peter Carl MON

couple more images for the pavement. 
is there light? look at west 8 - Adrian is into gardens, lightning. very inventive. 
a mini gift? 


couple more drawings and thats it. 








jump into the plinyville
look at how towns are being made: 


is it like oaxaca, where the cathedral steps in at the ground, 
and the garden is the city. 


is it another strip


does it have two ends? 


what is the size of it? 






the continuity of the project from the pavement to 
the plinyville, next to the school and how it feeds into the new one. 


what is the Thing in the new one, is it business park? is it school? 
dont look for obvious stereotype solutions. 




get the scale right. 
start drawing up the Plinny one as it is a tabula rasa more or less, then 
decide when to move/plant it in the new one. 


consider whether the grid is given, or whether not. 

tutorial with Robers THU

Feedback ourselves :) so hard


BS:
- we definitely havent shown the basic information
- i didnt get much feedback on pavement proposal
- gift has gone


RM: 
- you were the worst in explaining the basic facts
- I am surprised the critics did give you any comments
- I dont even think they understood pavement image was proposal
- gift strangely is done
- are you staying in Las Lomas, or moving to new colonia? 


BS: 
- staying

Free Gift - giving crit 10. Jan 2011

we had a crit on Monday
with up to 7 critics - Kieran Long, Mel Dodd, Daniel Serafimovski and Caroline who came half way through and then our standard trio: Catrina, Peter, Robert
thank you 


The crit was to discuss the actual gift and giving of it. 
I erm thought I was quite late handing it over to the post office on the way to the presentation. As it turned out, I was quite early :)) 
the benefit is, its irreversible. I simply gave it, it has left me, I cant take it back. win!

the letter with the manual was addressed to Blanca Juarez & Colonias Unidas

the actual gift was a manual/measuring tool - bunting. 
I took a standard US road, found out the widths of safety zones and lane markings, kerbs, pavements, marked them up with different colour flags, attached to the string. The bunting also contained respective instructions on how to produce such markings, pavements. 


All wrapped up in plastic zip bags with chalk to mark up and accompanied by postcard to send out depicting the streets with pavements already. 

The brave plan was to send numerous booklets, say to every post box and there were hundreds, in the end one went to Texas as a test. More, but simpler will go after comments. 

the ring: 

fav quotes: 


londonesque presentation
talking within the lexicon of developers
perhaps the task is to not understand an informality at all
how to test it is part of how to understand it
bring something fashionable somewhere completely unfashionable
moment of sickness (in the  feasting) 
envisage the scale rather then the system
Julia King PhD  - have to ask about that! 
high street becomes from ownership
abstracting death, this is one thing that you cant abstract
you are offering group therapy as an answer to mourning, now theres a problem already & you are housing it
RIBA was trying to pretend to be important
I am letting them become relevant again
It does what it has been designed for - look important
the bureaucracy is the architecture
your presentation so far was about the making and the team. So then being vague about the role of architect is like having a volcano with no magma
this is a satire! a nightmare
RIBA is designed to give meaning, Hilton is designed to pomp itself. 
It would be so easy to be dismissive of the RIBA
Palais de Tokyo
new highrise of landscape
soft colonisation - not necessarily japanese (but voluntary, TV, McDonald.. ) 
it takes a generation of buildings to appropriate emptiness
emptiness is best in temples, corners of gardens.. 
the tendency of thinking about the public as where the crowd is
bar is more political then liverpool street station
you were aided by the lack of understanding. London will be much harder
the project is about the preparation of understanding of the project. 
What do we call vernacular!
We need to redescribe what these terms mean: vernacular, informal, public..
map of pins within it - movable - it needs to be filmed
you are implicating rather then consulting
using food as regeneration process
The actual space is just stalls really, but really you are designing the system
say something lasting
Its a line, so you make it more interesting, you make it in brick
But you are in denial, they actually want to live in the tall buildings
If you cant describe why you like it, how do you make people keep it? 
route....marshland versus pier in UK
am nesting, in a church
This is a brief: I dont like squares
temperature changes in walled garden because of the (lack of) wind
a bit of space to grow into (1500 books) 
fetishist project
you ve got to stop this shaggy dog story
you dont want to give presentation, you want us to contribute
supreme narcissism
I wanna die faced down in muck
If there is nothing more then difference in underfloor heating maybe it is more interesting to ask: why are housing blocks the same in Korea as in UK!
the housing blocks are like fridges
in its uselessness it offers too much appropriation - makes it useful
shouldn't the absence of the thing be as noticeable as its presence?!
It should be less useful 
part of culture and its critique 
I found out that the masters is actually more credits then the Free Unit
Thats why your drawings are so small
is the medium inherent
Why do you want to open up views to St. Pauls
Because we all believe in God
how does your proposal provide any resistance
So much of the city are 3D models covered in pink granite
Planners usually instead of conflicting motifs flatten design into: circulation, commercial value, view and usually green. 
Suburbia is a sort of homelessness
street of lost limbs and lost people leading to rail garden. 



lasting comment: 
there wasn't a project whose topic didn't inspire, although there generally seemed to be a reluctance to look for what made the topic so important/relevant/profound/inspiring.  i felt there were one or two more drawings/models needed in every case which captured the spirit of the topics.  this would not only complete the gift submission but also orient thinking on the larger projects, which will inevitably have more issues.  intensity always wins over extensity.






and this time first time we had the seoul kids with us. finally no skype 
; we did our best bonding over the stakes in the Duchess. 

lane markings - widths and lengths and colours

Manual on uniform traffic control devices
(source)

Section 3A.05 Widths and Patterns of Longitudinal Pavement Markings

Standard:
The widths and patterns of longitudinal lines shall be as follows:

1. A normal line is 100 to 150 mm (4 to 6 in) wide.
2. A wide line is at least twice the width of a normal line. The width of the line indicates the degree of emphasis.
3. A double line consists of two parallel lines separated by a discernible space.
4. A broken line consists of normal line segments separated by gaps.
5. A dotted line shall consist of noticeably shorter line segments separated by shorter gaps than used for a broken line. The width of a dotted line shall be at least the same as the width of the line it extends.

Guidance:
Broken lines should consist of 3 m (10 ft) line segments and 9 m (30 ft) gaps, or dimensions in a similar ratio of line segments to gaps as appropriate for traffic speeds and need for delineation.

Option:
A dotted line for line extensions may consist of 0.6 m (2 ft) line segments and 0.6 m (2 ft) to 1.8 m (6 ft) gaps. A dotted line for lane drop/add markings may consist of 0.9 m (3 ft) line segments and 2.7 m (9 ft) gaps.

lane markings - Texas

Lane markings

The officially-sanctioned meaning for lane markings is not in the Transportation Code.  Instead, §544.001 requires the state to maintain an official manual of signs, signals, and markings.  This manual, the Texas Uniform Manual of Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), is the "law" when it comes to all traffic control devices, including lane markings.  The meanings of these devices, as defined in the MUTCD, is enforceable.

source: http://www.texashighwayman.com/laws.shtml#Markings




So for Las Lomas local roads: 
broken yellow line for the middle of the road and
white line for the edges of the raod. 

Texas

safety tips for pedestrians - texas state  (source of text)

Here’s the Law: Pedestrians

• Yield to vehicles on the roadway if you cross the street at a place other than a marked crosswalk or pedestrian tunnel or crossing. If you’re hit while jaywalking, the driver may not be liable, and his or her auto insurance may not cover your injuries.
• Stay on sidewalks and the right-hand side of crosswalks. Drivers are supposed to yield the right of way to pedestrians in crosswalks.
• If the road has no sidewalk, walk on the left side of the road facing traffic.

Pedestrian Tips

• Always cross at intersections. Look left, then right, then left again before proceeding.
• Look for traffic when stepping off a bus or from behind parked cars.
• As a passenger, get in or out of a car on the curb side of the street.
• Make eye contact with drivers before you cross the street.

White lines save lives

are your lines up to the mark?   (text and images source)


.."The use of road markings has grown with the use of the motorcar, initially as a result of the 1
st
National Conference on Street and Highway Safety in Washington DC in 1925 to what is now a multi 
million pound international road safety industry serving all developed and developing nations."

Width

The absolute minimum level of retro reflectivity to produce a reaction time of less than 2.0 seconds is 
100 milicandelas / lux/metre sq. (It is this level that the RSMA research outlined above indicates is not 
reached by up to a third of markings on all UK A roads and motorways) Consequently Germany has increased the lane line minimum width on all high-speed roads to 15 cm 
wide and there has been a major increase in the use of wet night visibility markings throughout the 
EC, with the exception of the UK. 




Materials 
There are generally four basic road-marking materials on roads, thermoplastic, paint, two-component 
resin based systems and preformed. Each one of these systems use reflective glass beads to provide the 
required retro reflectivity




Paint 
It is estimated that paint is used for approximately 70–75% of the world’s population of road 
markings. Paint is used currently on 80% in France and 60% of markings in the USA 
The benefit of paints that it does not require heating and can be applied very quickly at speeds up to 15 
kms per hour, has little build up and has an affinity to glass beads which improves their retention and 
consequently the retro reflectivity of the marking. The draw back is that the application window is 
restricted to May until October because of weather conditions  Improved acrylic resins have increased durability and performance waterborne paints when compared 
with the old solvent based paints. Durability of between 2 - 3 years dependant on traffic volumes with 
high retro reflectivity within the range 140 – 250 can be expected

Effective manual

simple
Carlsberg